I truly don't understand that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" rhetoric that LOT of folks maintain out there just because they hate the US. Like if China or Russia were better places to live.
The worst part is that this is what dominant classes want, polarization.
I'm not taking that from the U.S.
I'm just being consistent. The U.S. is good? Hell no, they're fucking shit. That means that China's good, automatically? Not, they're fucking shit too. It's as simple as that, I hate both because they're simply the polar opposite of good.
Yeah, I'm not saying that NATO or the US are better, but I'm trying to push back against the polarized, totally pro-China folks who are only following a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" rhetoric, thus becoming blind to all of China's major issues.
For example, another point is that the entire economic boom in China is driven by an enormous working class that is heavily overexploited by the State yet rendered invisible for convenience, and that is barely compensated with less than the cost of a piece of candy for that labor.
You can also just get a VPN in China and access the outside internet relatively easily.
I wouldn't be so sure. You need much more than that (as far as I remember, a specific form of DPI bypass, sometimes the use of multiple VPNs at once [which are hard to find and download because their sites are blocked within China's territory], sometimes even Tor or another overlay network or mixnet [such as Nym, I2P, Hyphanet, or Freenet], and a lot more stuff that I don't recall precisely because it's far beyond my current technical knowledge).
...there are more parties...
Can you name a few? I'm asking honestly, not out of malice or to be combative; I'd like to know more about that, tbh, because it's hard for me not to be skeptical about that claim.
And what Xi Jinping image cult?
Do you remember the whole thing with the Winnie the Pooh picture? Well, sort of that. Only a person who is egocentric, egolatrized, and narcissistic enough to instigate a cult of personality would actually ban something like that, and do it the way he did it. Also, you don't have to go that far — look at the streets and you're going to see photos and pictures of Jinping everywhere.
And yeah, I know that it's quite normal for a politician to display photos of himself in public areas, but not on that scale. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about; I'm from Venezuela, and both Chávez and Maduro had (and Chávez still has) a huge cult of personality, and everything aligns with Jinping's imagery.
Their "houses are for living, not for speculating" slogan is an example.
China's government might be actually doing something with that... Just to by the other hand harden their mass control and mass surveillance even more; not for anything they have one of the biggest — if not the biggest — regional firewalls (maybe just behind North Korea's one) — the GFW. Then also they have "Reeducation Camps", and all that stuff that any good fascist dictatorship has. Not to forgive Xi Jingping image cult.
So yeah, at what cost? It's at the cost of their freedom.
Oh, and China has other parties outside the Chinese Communist > Party? To think, ladies and gentlemen.
Their "houses are for living, not for speculating" slogan.
China's government might be actually doing something with that... Just to by the other hand harden their mass control and mass surveillance even more; not for anything they have one of the biggest — if not the biggest — regional firewalls (maybe just behind North Korea's one) — the GFW. Then also they have "Reeducation Camps", and all that stuff that any good fascist dictatorship has. Not to forgive Xi Jingping image cult.
So yeah, at what cost? It's at the cost of their freedom.
Oh, and China has other parties outside the Chinese Communist Party? To think, ladies and gentlemen.
I was referring to "You should do that but you shouldn't do that" lmao, because I was recognizing that it was a straw man, as I only said it as a joke.
Anyways, besides the straw man, the point is that I don't even consider that to be bad, so I think that saying that it shouldn't be done — even if merely at the moral-level, but not at the legal level — it's problematic.
Edit: The straw man is "You should do that but you shouldn't do that", that's simply a joke.
Omg I hope so, because if it's really a human body, it might be there since the accident.